Reply #9: Kodachrome was a good film in its day, but wan't even the best slide film for the past twenty years

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Since at least the late '80s - early '90s, it was significantly bettered by Fuji Velvia -- which is still very much available, and can be processed in lots of places.

What doomed Kodachrome (aside from being surpassed by Velvia) was not digital photography, but that it was the one film that used a very non-standard and difficult-to-implement processing chemistry...which is why you can still get Ektachrome as well as the Fuji films, all of which use a standard processing that can be done almost everywhere.